Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Stern and starboard side of KATIE, tied to the bank of a river. KATIE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (284 ft. x 43 ft. x 8.7 ft.), was built in 1871 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. KATIE operated on the lower...
Medical education; Medical students; University of Louisville. Medical Dept.
Catalog for University of Louisville medical department 1871-1872. Includes list of board of trustees and faculty, catalog or circular for 1871-1872, catalog of students for the 1870-1871 session listing student names, residence, and preceptor, and...
Railroad car hanging off a bridge or trestle with one car crushed below it and another car pushing against it from the back. Two men stand on the stone bridge next to the rear car. A crowd of people stands below. Descriptive information on back of...
Government facilities; Buildings; Rotundas; Paintings; Allegorical paintings
Large circle, painted in the center, with decorative elements forming a large border. It is the interior domed ceiling of the Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol. The fresco-style painting is called The Apotheosis of Washington. Descriptive information on...
Cities & towns; Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871; Buildings
Old Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station in Chicago, Illinois. Tall Gothic-style building with a tall tower and a smaller building with a tower or chimney to the right. A road crosses in front. The buildings are at Michigan and Chicago...
Churches; Religious facilities; Buildings; Steeples
Address: 805 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The First Unitarian Church stands at the corner of Fourth and York Streets. Built in 1871, this stone building has two entries. Two sets of double doors under pointed arches face Fourth Street...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Ship equipment & rigging; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
JOHN HOWARD, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (180 ft. x 36 ft. x 6.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1871. JOHN HOWARD operated on the lower Mississippi River between New Orleans and the Ouachita River. JOHN HOWARD was rebuilt with a new hull...
Louisville Medical College - Composite photograph of medical department faculty of the Louisville Medical College for 1871, 1872, or 1873. Ten individual oval-shaped portraits surrounding one larger oval-shaped portraits. Text on bottom: Photo by...
Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. People are walking in front of the Tyler Davidson Fountain, constructed in 1871, and along the sidewalk in front of several shops. A Mabley Carew sign is seen above the tree-lined street. Title supplied...
Born in 1790 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, George Robertson attended Transylvania University until 1806 and was admitted to the bar in 1809. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1817 to 1821 and in Kentucky's legislature from 1822 to 1827, in 1848, and...
A native of Henry County, Kentucky, William S. Pryor was born near New Castle in 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1844 and practiced in New Castle until he was elected circuit court judge in 1866. In 1871, he was appointed to a vacancy on the...
John S. Jackman was born in 1841 in Carroll County, Kentucky. His education took place in the county of his birth, but was interrupted when he joined the Confederate army, enrolling in the Ninth Kentucky Infantry of the First Kentucky Brigade. He...
Richard T. Colston was born in 1850 in Bardstown, Kentucky. After service as a teenager in the Confederate forces, he attended the University of Kentucky, later transferring to the University of Chicago where he graduated in 1869 and took a...
Edward P. Campbell was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1832. He was reared on a farm and attended Cumberland College, graduating in 1854. In 1855, he read law under Judge George B. Cook, of Princeton, Kentucky, and in 1856, was admitted to...
Charles Morehead Thomas was born in 1847 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He attended the common schools of Warren County, Kentucky, but was caught up in the turmoil of the Civil War, joining the Confederate Army as a youth. After the war he returned to...
Full-length character portrait of actor, director, and writer Edmund Reese in costume for the role of John B. Ryder in Charles Klein's "The Lion and the Mouse," which was performed at Macauley's Theatre in October 1908. He stands on a...
Seated portrait of Richard Carle wearing eyeglasses, a suit jacket, and tie. Also known as Charles Carleton, Carle was a stage and screen actor, as well as a lyricist, writer, producer, director, composer, and choreographer. Born July 7, 1871, in...
Full-length character portrait of performer and director Victor Morley wearing a checked suit, tie and straw hat, and leaning on a cane. Morley was born in Greenwich, England, circa 1871, and died in New York City in 1935. He first performed the...
Seated portrait of Richard Carle with hands clasped on his lap, wearing eyeglasses, an unbuttoned suit jacket, white vest, and tie. Carle, also known as Charles Carleton, was a stage and screen actor, as well as a lyricist, writer, producer,...
Oval-shaped portrait of left profile of band leader Giuseppe Creatore wearing a mustache and wool jacket. Born in Naples, Italy, on June 21, 1871, Giuseppe Creatore & His Italian Band performed at Macauley's Theatre in February 1903 and January...
